Excalibur IP, LLC

Verizon Media Inc.

Pranav Sharma

Abhay K Gupta

Edward Bortnikov

Guy Golan Gueta

Tsung-Jen Chou

Isay Shnayder

Senthil Subramanian

In one embodiment, a search engine may generate and store a plurality of search index segments such that each of the search index segments is stored in a corresponding one of a plurality of heaps of memory. The plurality of search index segments may include inverted index segments mapping content to documents containing the content. A garbage collection module may release one or more heaps of the memory.

Recyclable private memory heaps for dynamic search indexes

Systems and methods for managing inventory in an online advertising system are described herein. The inventory may comprise advertisement ('ad') impressions. In accordance with certain implementations, the systems and methods enable advertisers to target groups of inventory (e.g., 'run of' inventory groups) made available by publishers and sold at a non-premium rate, while also enabling the publishers to selectively designate certain inventory within a given inventory group as premium. Inventory so designated is automatically excluded from an inventory group to which it would normally belong both during a booking process as well as during an ad serving process.

Inventory contribution rules for inventory management

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Pranav Sharma